RIVER IMPROVEMENTS.
(To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Siu—l see by your paper we have a ]ot of etceteras for the Flagstaff. I hope they have some iron rods that can be etude in at low water and shifted as required—that is, as the channel shifts. In old times, when Capt. Fairchild was using - the port, these things were clone, but not since. Excepting the balls, a semaphore, and the pilot waving a flag, there is nothing that masters of vessels can depend upon, and to a stranger, certainly, it is a deal of use. Now, as we have a Harbour Board, one would think that one member of the Board would move that this should be seen to, but it is not to be. We shall jog along at the present quiet rate, unless the Harbour is done. Capitalists object to speculate in a steamer, knowing the defects of buoys, &c. Our produce, excepting cattle and sheep, is not worth growing, with the river in its present state. If the channel was marked, as it was in Fairchild’s time, we would have a steamer here before next wool season ; but you won’t get people that know what they are about to risk their money in a steamer under the present state of affairs.—Yours, OLD IDENTITY.
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 241, 1 August 1877, Page 2
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